Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. It was adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel of the same name. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a box office failure, grossing US$10.6 million at the North American box office, well below its $18.5 million budget. It has since become a cult film due in large part to its...
The movie ends with Duke in the convertible on the road to L. A., characteriz...
Dr. Gonzo opens the cocaine canister and the coke blows all over the place.
Duke and Gonzo are seated at the National District Attorney?s Convention on N...
On the road 400 miles from Los Angeles Duke's trip turns out to be bummer.
Duke watches and narrates Gonzo climb the steps to the plane.
The waitress at North Star Cafe spits in Gonzo's face and tells them to get o...
Gonzo and Duke interrogate the hotel maid. Sitting on the floor she squirms a...
Duke runs back into the bathroom when Gonzo starts splashing and yelling.
Duke does a countdown to dropping a tape deck into Gonzo's bathwater, with Go...
At the Mint Hotel Duke hears Gonzo yell out from the bathroom. He dashes towa...
Duke narrates as he attempts to skip out on paying his hotel bill at the Mint.
The car on the sidewalk in front of the Desert Room, Duke looks up from the d...
In the Mint Lounge, on an acid trip, Duke blurts out and all of the lizard pe...
In route to the auto rental Duke and Gonzo are held up. The scene is gory.
Duke is back in the convertible back on the road to L. A.
Duke is back in the convertible back on the road to L. A.
The scene changes from Duke typing at the Flamingo to Duke back in the conver...
Back in the room at the Flamingo Duke pecks away at his keyboard...
Duke gets Gonzo plane-side. As Gonzo walks toward the plane with bags in hand...
In route to the airport they cross paths with Lucy. In their panic to get awa...
Duke drives Gonzo to the airport summing up their trip in narration on the way.
After the waitress at North Star Cafe spits in Gonzo's face and threatens to ...
Gonzo gives the waitress at North Star Cafe a napkin with back door beauty an...
A cop signals for Duke to pull over, Duke speeds up.
Duke is at the wheel, Gonzo talks to the people in the vehicle travelling bes...
Duke is at the wheel, Gonzo talks to the people in the vehicle travelling bes...
Still trying to put the pieces together, Duke talks into the microphone and s...
As he plays the tape in the room at the Flamingo, Duke's mind flashes from on...
Outside a Vegas supermarket, Duke and Gonzo beat up on their rental car, some...
In the room at the Flamingo Duke plays a tape he's recorded of his time in Ve...
Still staggering around the room after a wild trip, Duke has lost all track o...
Duke wanders around the room trying to get his head together,
When they return from their first night out in Vegas Gonzo has trouble gettin...
Duke is trying to stiff the Mint Hotel but the clerk keeps hanging beside the...
Sitting in the Bazooka lounge Gonzo starts feeling ill effects from the combi...
When Duke exits the room leaving Gonzo in the company of his knife, he stroll...
Duke wakes at the Flamingo the morning after his trip.
At the desk of the Flamingo the confusion, and her husband's ill temper, upse...
The Desk Clerk at Flamingo Hotel maintains his decorum despite the police chi...
Pulled over by a traffic cop, Duke supposedly uses psychology on him.
The morning after checking into the Mint Hotel, Duke arrives at the event he ...
Gonzo exits the suite at the Flamingo with Lucy under the pretext of taking h...
Duke, attempting to rid themselves of Lucy and not be traced, makes reservati...
Gonzo is on a pay phone in a bar making car reservations for their road trip....
Gonzo helps Duke and Lucy get to know each other, although that's the last th...
At the Mint 400 race Duke walks past the coffee stand and heads for the press...
A cop signals for Duke to pull over, Duke speeds up, then suddenly stops and ...
As he drives Duke hallucinates, seeing bats flying around.
Duke hears a scream. When he looks over Gonzo is on top of a woman on the flo...
Sometime later Duke awakes in the Flamingo from his trip. The room is in sham...
Sometime later Duke awakes in the Flamingo from his trip. The room is in sham...
Sometime later Duke awakes in the Flamingo from his trip. The room is in sham...
Sometime later Duke awakes in the Flamingo from his trip. The room is in sham...
Gonzo walks back across the room and sits down. Duke remains on the bed, frea...
Gonzo walks back across the room and sits down. Duke remains on the bed, frea...
Duke looks up at Gonzo from the bed, his eyes bulging and sweating profusely....
In an instant Gonzo's appearance changes back to normal.
As Duke goes deeper into his trip he sees Gonzo's appearance start to change.
Duke sits on the bed snorting the drug off the tip of Gonzo's knife and makin...
Gonzo serves up a powdered drug to Duke off the tip of his hunting knife.
Gonzo tells of how he came across the drug, failing to notice that Duke has p...
Gonzo tells of how he came across the drug, failing to notice that Duke has p...
Having consumed way to much of the new drug Gonzo introduced him to Duke appe...
After his grand telephone performance Gonzo turns his attention back to getti...
Over the phone Gonzo puts on a long production for Lucy's sake acting as thou...
While Gonzo hands Lucy a line on the phone, Duke over consumes the drug Gonzo...
Gonzo talks to Lucy on the phone while Duke samples the drug Adrenochrome.
Gonzo calls Lucy back while Duke packs because he's concerned that Gonzo's af...
Duke, prompted by a call from Lucy, is imagining himself and Gonzo in court. ...
Watching the narcotics film at the DA convention Duke looks down at his paints.
L. Ron Bumquist responds to a question from the audience about the root cause...
L. Ron Bumquist discusses the social status of people in what he calls mariju...
L. Ron Bumquist continues his talk at the DA convention on Dangerous Drugs.
Duke and Gonzo are seated at the National District Attorney?s Convention on N...
Gonzo hanging over the toilet in the suite vomits. For some reason Duke is kn...
After paying someone to drop Lucy off at the Americana Gonzo gets back in the...
Duke calls the Americana Hotel to set up a reservation for Lucy and fells bad...
Duke calls the Americana Hotel to set up a reservation for Lucy.
In the corridor at the Flamingo Duke keeps talking to Gonzo, making his point...
In the corridor at the Flamingo Duke keeps talking to Gonzo about Lucy in the...
In the corridor at the Flamingo Duke keeps talking to Gonzo about Lucy in the...
In the corridor at the Flamingo Duke keeps talking to Gonzo about Lucy in the...
Duke speaks Pig Latin to Gonzo in the suite at the Flamingo for Lucy's benefit.
The police chief finishes his tantrum after Duke checks in. His wife cries.
The Desk Clerk at Flamingo Hotel maintains his decorum despite the police chi...
The Desk Clerk at Flamingo Hotel maintains his decorum despite the police chi...
A police chief from Michigan gets upset because his reservation has been tran...
Duke debates whether he should go straight to LA and risk getting busted or h...
Duke steps into the lobby of the Flamingo filled with DAs from all over the c...
Duke arrives at the Flamingo to cover the DA's conference.
Duke arrives at the Flamingo to cover the DA's conference.
After talking to Gonzo on the phone Duke takes target practice in the desert.
Duke puts a call through to Gonzo from Baker believing that Gonzo skipped out...
The highway patrolman that pulls Duke over advises him to go to a rest stop a...
Duke tries to distract the clerk so he can get away.
Just as he prepares to drive off skipping out of the hotel the Clerk runs out...
Duke attempts to slip out of the hotel because he has no money to pay the bill.
Duke stands from the typewriter and walks to the window, as he looks out the ...
Duke stands from the typewriter and walks to the window, as he looks out the ...
The scene changes back to Duke sitting at his typewriter in the Mint Hotel ro...
As the musician licks the acid off of Duke's sleeve a businessman exits the t...
In the bathroom at the Matrix a musician enters just after Duke spills half o...
While narrating the the Matrix, Jefferson Airplane scene Duke reflects on how...
After hitting the pipe, Duke narrates, the scene changes to the Matrix in 65....
Duke narration is heard as he lights a bowl and takes a hit. He leans back on...
With Gonzo back in the bathroom Duke tries to settle down a get a few hours r...
Using the megaphone, Duke talks Gonzo back into the bathroom.
Duke stands over Gonzo talking to him with a megaphone. Gonzo is on the floor...
Gonzo acid trip changes the effect it's having on him to some degree.
In a crazy rage Dr. Gonzo swings his blade through the air at Duke. When Duke...
Gonzo kicks up in the tub. Duke stands over him with the curtain rod as if it...
Duke tells Gonzo why he won't throw the radio into the tub with him.
Gonzo tells Duke that, at a certain point in the song, he wants Duke to throw...
Gonzo starts having a fit in the tub when Duke refuses to put on some music f...
When Duke returns to the room after his stroll through the casino he finds Go...
Duke tries his hand at one of the games and loses. He curses then catches him...
When Duke exits the room leaving Gonzo in the company of his knife, he stroll...
Duke narrates as he slips out of the room because Gonzo is waving a razor sha...
On the elevator in the Mint, a member of a broadcast crew tells Duke he's bul...
Gonzo whips out a rather large hunting knife. Duke questions him about it.
Gonzo aims his comment at Duke for making light of Lacerda being with a woman...
The Bazooko Circus lounge is a carousel and Gonzo is so high he can't time an...
After making it back to the hotel and finding their room with much tribulatio...
Gonzo searches for the keys as they walk as if doing the limbo, bending furth...
Tripping and drunk Duke and Gonzo walk around the Bazooko Circus looking for ...
The Bazooko Circus lounge is a carousel and Gonzo is so high he can't time an...
Duke tries to get the attention on the bartender at the Bazooko lounge so the...
A Bazooka's Circus waitress angers when Gonzo asks her about her screwing a b...
Dr. Gonzo turns to the Bazooko's Circus waitress who offers to light his ciga...
Sitting at the bar in the Bazooko lounge Gonzo starts looking mean.
Gonzo's trip continues to go bad. Duke tells him his timing is bad.
Sitting in the Bazooko lounge Gonzo starts feeling ill effects from the combi...
Duke walks pass a clown barker at the Bazooko Circus inviting him to try an u...
After another hit off ether, Duke walks around the Bazooko Circus Casino.
After another hit off ether, Duke walks around the Bazooko circus.
Duke and Gonzo, completely discombobulated, walk, stumble, crawl and generall...
Duke narrates as he and Gonzo, completely discombobulated, walk, stumble, cra...
Gonzo pissed at being thrown out of the Desert Room shares his thoughts with ...
After being thrown out of Debbie's show at the Desert Room Gonzo yells back a...
The camera is on a closeup of Duke and Gonzo when Duke stops the car. Then we...
Duke provides a reason why they shouldn't catch Guy Lombardo's show.
As Duke's attorney Gonzo advises him to ride over to the Blue Room so they ca...
Duke narrates again. He and Gonzo getting high as they get high, uh, higher.
The Jeep stops and Duke gets out. Lacerda and the driver drive on to continue...
While riding in an open Jeep in a dust bowl with Lacerda, Duke hears machine ...
In the press tent at the Mint 400 Duke sits at the bar talking to a reporter.
The morning after checking into the Mint Hotel, Duke arrives at the event he ...
After Lacerda exits Gonzo walks over to where Duke is hiding.
As Lacerda makes his way to the door Gonzo speaks to him without looking in h...
While watching war footage on TV and tripping Duke sees Lacerda turn into a V...
Lacerda, duke's photographer enters the suite. Duke is still cowering.
Gonzo gets Duke to their suite. Duke continues to trip. Gonzo deals with room...
Duke still hallucinating sees a group of reptilian creature look in their dir...
Hallucinating, Duke looks around the lounge. All the people take the form of ...
Duke is sitting at the bar in the Mint Hotel with Gonzo deep into an acid tri...
Duke is sitting at the bar in the Mint Hotel with Gonzo deep into an acid trip.
Duke steps to the registration desk well under the influence of the acid. Whi...
Duke steps to the registration desk well under the influence of the acid. Whi...
Duke steps to the registration desk well under the influence of the acid.
On their arrival in Vegas duke over hears a man on the phone in lobby while t...
Gonzo licks the spilled cocaine off of the briefcase. While his head is down ...
Gonzo hands Duke the acid which he consumes while driving.
Dr. Gonzo opens the cocaine canister and the coke blows all over the place. W...
Dr. Gonzo opens the cocaine canister and the coke blows all over the place. W...
Dr. Gonzo opens the cocaine canister and the coke blows all over the place. W...
Dr. Gonzo opens the cocaine canister and the coke blows all over the place.
As the hitchhiker runs from view Duke turns settling back in his seat.
At that point the hitchhiker grabs his bags, jumps out of the convertible goi...
At that point the hitchhiker grabs his bags, jumps out of the convertible, go...
Dr. Gonzo turns to the hitchhiker, pulls a pistol out of a paper bag and tell...
Dr. Gonzo screams for medicine and pulls the car to the side of the road. Aft...
Dr. Gonzo screams for medicine and pulls the car to the side of the road. Aft...
The hitchhiker is obviously uncomfortable with Duke's arm snugly around his n...
The scene changes from the pre trip flashback back to the car. Duke has an ar...
Gonzo loads several cases of beer into the trunk. Then Duke tears out of the ...
Duke and Gonzo ride off, leaving the bar on their way to gathering what they ...
Duke and Gonzo ride off, leaving the bar on their way to gathering what they ...
Gonzo is on a pay phone in a bar making car reservations. Duke sits at the bar.
Duke and Gonzo exit the hotel and climb into a beatup car. They drive off jus...
Duke and Dr. Gonzo sit in the Pongo Lounge discussing the trip to Las Vegas. ...
The scene changes from the car to Beverly Heights Hotel where they sit in the...
Dr. Gonzo settles at the wheel for a moment having warded of what he thought ...
Dr. Gonzo settles at the wheel for a moment having warded of what he thought ...
Then the car swerves when Dr. Gonzo fights of what he sees in his hallucination.
Duke turns to the hitchhiker and starts talking. A moment later he climbs in ...
Duke contemplates what to do about the way their weird behavior might be impa...
Dr. Gonzo straightens the rear view mirror out and explains why Duke was watc...
Duke wonders if he spoke the paranoid thoughts he's having aloud or not.
Duke looks at the hitchhiker in the rear view mirror as they ride.
After Dr. Gonzo gives the hitchhiker pause, Duke threatens Dr. Gonzo.
Dr. Gonzo looks over and back from behind the wheel smiling at the hitchhiker...
Duke, bent over, goes through the supplies in the trunk with a cigarette and ...
Duke grabs a fly swatter out of the trunk and starts swing at what ever it is...
Duke pulls the red convertible to the side of the roan. In his narration he m...
Duke continues to narrate his thoughts. Gonzo drives. The hitchhiker sits qui...
Duke continues to narrate his thoughts. Gonzo drives. The hitchhiker sits in ...
Dr. Gonzo backs up, the hitchhiker runs up. After the exchange between Gonzo ...
Seconds after they pass a hitchhiker Dr. Gonzo decides to stop the car and do...
Seconds after they pass a hitchhiker Dr. Gonzo decides to stop the car and does.
Duke looks over from the passenger seat at Dr Gonzo then up looking for the b...
For the first time we hear from Dr. Gonzo as he sings along with the radio......
Duke jumps into the passenger seat after selecting several items from the cas...
Dr Gonzo is behind the wheel. Duke is smoking a joint held in a roach clip. H...
Back in the red convertible, Duke continues his narration.
On the side of the road Duke opens the trunk then opens a case in the trunk c...
Duke is heard in narration as we see him driving down the road under the infl...
Driving down a road void of traffic Duke narrates as the movie opens. He ente...
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